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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

If students don't succeed, colleges and universities don't succeed. Our
full attention must be concentrated on the mission-critical goal of
helping students define—and meet—their educational goals.

Here's another very interesting article from EDUCAUSE Review, by Kevin Kruger, Rebecca Martin, George L. Mehaffy, and John O'Brien.

EDUCAUSE serves a tremendously wide range of colleges and
universities, nearly 2,000 from 45 countries. Many sustain crucial and
substantial research efforts, and some have created unique programs that
are focused on the external communities they serve. Some are
open-access institutions, and others are highly selective. Regardless of
the mix, the teaching and learning enterprise is a basic element of
their mission, and in turn, the success of our students is undeniably at
the heart of the work of higher education. And even (or especially)
when we are most preoccupied with our day-to-day activities, we can
benefit from concentrating on why we are doing all this hard
work. The reason, of course, is to help students define and meet their
educational goals. As we strive to tackle the challenges of our daily
work, we must also make sure this work advances the societal mission of
all our institutions: educating students, a mission more critical than
ever before—and more scrutinized by others.

To kick off our discussion of student success, we invited
perspectives from colleagues at associations that represent leaders in
various areas of higher education. We wanted to hear how their
constituencies approach this core institutional issue. What does student
success mean for their members? What major facets of student success
are they trying to identify? What strategies are they prioritizing to
address student success? From the perspective of their members, what
role should technology play in the future of student success? If they
could change one thing in the landscape for student success nationally,
what might that be?

Below are three essays about student success from Kevin Kruger of
Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA), Rebecca
Martin of the National Association of System Heads (NASH), and George L.
Mehaffy of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities
(AASCU)—followed by thoughts from EDUCAUSE President and CEO John
O'Brien. Read more...

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I have an education in the teaching adults and adult learning from Roskilde University, with Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Human Resource Development (HRD) as specially studied subjects. I am the author of several articles and publications about the use of decision support tools, e-learning and computer-mediated communication. I am a member of The Danish Mathematical Society (DMF), The Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics (DSTS) and an individual member of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Note: Comments published here are purely my own and do not reflect those of my current or future employers or other organizations.